The Garland encyclopedia of world music. Volume 1, Africa / Ruth M. Stone, editor.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Garland Pub., 1998.
Description
xv, 851 pages : illustrations, maps, music ; 29 cm + 1 audio disc (digital : 4 3/4 in.)

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Summary note
Explores key themes in African music that have emerged in recent years - a subject usually neglected in country-by-country coverage emphasizes the contexts of musical performance - unlike studies that offer static interpretations isolated from other performing traditions presents the fresh insights and analyses of musicologists and anthropologists of diverse national origins - African, Asian, European, and American. Charts the flow and influence of music. The Encyclopedia also charts the musical interchanges that followed the movement of people and ideas across the continent, including: cross-regional musical influences throughout Africa * Islam and its effect on African music * spread of guitar music * Kru mariners of Liberia * Latin American influences on African music * musical interchanges in local contexts * crossovers between popular and traditional practices. Audio CD included. Also includes nine maps and 96 music examples.
Notes
Includes audio compact disc of selected audio examples.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 809-816. Discography: p. 817-820. Filmography: p. 821-822) and index.
Contents
  • pt. 1. Introduction to African music. Profile of Africa ; African music in a constellation of arts / Ruth Stone
  • The scholarly study of African music : a historical review / J.H. Kwabena Nketia
  • The representative African music in early documents / John McCall
  • pt. 2. Issues and processes in African music. Identities : music and other African arts / Barbara L. Hampton
  • Time in African performance / Ruth M. Stone
  • Notation and oral tradition / Kay Kaufman Shelemay
  • Issue of timbre : the Inanga Chuchotée / Cornelia Fales
  • Compositional practices in African music / Atta Annan Mensah
  • Art-composed music in Africa / Johnston Akuma-Kalu Njoku
  • Theory and technology in African music / Simha Arom and Frédéric Voisin
  • Tumbuka healing / Steven Friedman
  • Dance in communal life / Patience A. Kwakwa
  • Intra-African streams of influence / Gerhard Kubik
  • Islam in Liberia / Lester P. Monts
  • The guitar in Africa / Andrew L. Kaye
  • Kru mariners and migrants of the West African coast / Cynthia Schmidt
  • Latin American musical influences in Zaïre / Kazadi wa Mukuna
  • Rural-urban interchange : the Anlo-Ewe / Daniel Avorgbedor
  • Foreign-indigenous interchange : the Yoruba / Christopher Brooks
  • Popular music in Africa / Angela Impey
  • pt. 3. Regional case studies. West Africa. West Africa : an introduction / Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje
  • Yoruba popular music / Christopher Waterman
  • Praise singing in Northern Sierra Leone / Laura Arntson
  • Hausa performance / Fremont E. Besmer
  • North Africa. North Africa : an introduction / Caroline Card Wendt
  • Music in Sudan / Artur Simon
  • Tuareg music / Caroline Card Wendt
  • East Africa. East Africa : an introduction / Peter Cooke
  • Music and poetry in Somalia / John William Johnson
  • Music in Kenya / Paul N. Kavyu
  • Music in Tanzania / Stephen H. Martin
  • Central Africa. Central Africa an introduction / Gerhard Kubik
  • Musical life in the Central African Republic / Michelle Kisliuk
  • Southern Africa. Southern Africa : an introduction / John E. Kaemmer
  • Harmony in Luvale music of Zambia / Kenichi Tsukada
  • Music of the Shona of Zimbabwe / John E. Kaemmer
  • Popular music in South Africa / David B. Coplan
  • Performance in Madagascar / Mireille Rakotomalala.
  • Audio CD contents. Kpelle Woi-mene-pele epic excerpt (4:27)
  • Ethiopian Lidet (Christmas) celebration (3:08)
  • Inanga Chuchotee (whispered inanga) (4:12)
  • Vai call to prayer (5:07)
  • Palm-wine highlife song (2:56)
  • Anlo-Ewe kinka drumming (2:16)
  • Anlo-Ewe kinka songs (2:13)
  • Maninka Mansareh praise song (balabolo) including "nyin min nyama, nyama" (5:44)
  • Bala pattern of Maninka Mansareh bolo (0:51)
  • Maninka Duwa praise sing
  • Tuareg Tihadanaren (1:57)
  • Tuareg takemba song "Khadisia" (1:32)
  • Basoga lusoga song "Enhonyhi kolojo," "Thieving birds" (4:00)
  • Baganda akadinda song "Gganga aluwa," "Gganga escaped with his life" (2:26)
  • Somali caayar "dhaanto" excerpt 1 (2:45)
  • Somali caayar "dhaanto" excerpt 2 (0:16)
  • Popular song "Motike," "Orphans" (2:02)
  • "Makala," a song performed during a BaAka (pygmy hunting dance called Mabo (2:30)
  • BaAka of Dzanga perform a song during the eboka ya nzapa, "god dance" in the style of neighboring Bolamba pygmies (2:12)
  • Shona Munyonga mbira song "Tongore" (2:25)
  • Shona ancestral spirit song "Nyama musango" (2:25).
Other title(s)
Africa
ISBN
  • 0824060350
  • 9780824060350 ((volume 1))
OCLC
37988070
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